[U: What A Crock!] Team Tangerine 2.0 Owes Briefing By Noon Today, In USDC Judge Nichols Courtroom In DC: Purported Cutting Of Fed. Govt. Workers Case...

Updated, at Noon Eastern: Well, the latest Peter Morocco sworn statement is now on file. And the upshot here is -- the guy who had most of the operational responsibility for the USAID debacle. . . really didn't spend time thinking about. . . much of anything, on a logistical/planning basis -- before just dashing off an email firing nearly three thousand people (and in many cases, their young families) living in remote geographies (many of them quite dangerous). Just read all seven pages of it -- and shake your head. Damn. This level of ineptitude is pretty much the oposite of an APA compliant "carefully reasoned" change in policy, at an agency. End update.

The unions have made the very clear case for -- and received -- a TRO against the purported exec. order(s) / Sharpie scribbles that Tangerine 2.0 lawlessly signed about two weeks ago now, to attempt to end the employment of thousands upon thousands of federal workers (with a pen stroke) -- ones that may only be let go for well-documented (individualized written), and investigated and adjudicated so-called "cause".

Do recall that many if not most of these USAID workers were in a precarious / war zone setting in far flung geographies overseas, when Tangerine simply cut them loose without so much as cell-phone access.

We expect that this new brief will only tread old ground, and fail -- but we will link it, when it is filed, here. Do recall that Judge Nichols is a Tangerine 1.0 appointee -- and is the guy who hemmed in the J6 prosecutions last time around (so anything is possible, here -- despite crystal clear black letter law of long standing):

. . .Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Carl J. Nichols: Telephone Conference held on 2/19/2025. Defendants' supplemental brief and declaration due by noon on 2/20/2025. . . .

In the mean time, take a look here -- for granular detail on all this -- courtesy our erstwhile Anon. commenter. Hat tip!

Onward, into the chilly sunshine in the steel and glass canyons. . . all as Tangerine wildly libels and defames the honorable people of Ukraine, and licks the boots of Vlad Putin. Yes, GOP regulars. . . this is your guy. And you won't even make a peep about him selling our allies down the river?! Sheesh. Out.

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